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For those not likely destined for the top 10 and that don't have large investments to recoup, these top 10 statistics are fairly irrelevant. A survey among deve
by dminor 16y ago
For those not likely destined for the top 10 and that don't have large investments to recoup, these top 10 statistics are fairly irrelevant. A survey among developers who ported their app to both platforms would be far more enlightening.
For a company that spends a lot on development and marketing, and will likely have a top 10 app, those top 10 numbers may certainly mean that their Android investment won't pay off.
- sadiq 16y agoAn interesting datapoint is this guy: http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/caq8f/iama_developer_who_sells_the_same_app_both_in_the/ http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/caq8f/iama_developer_w... Who made the same app for the iPhone and for Android. His ratio was 3:1, which is roughly the ratio of handsets in the US iirc.
- credo 16y agoI'm not sure why you think the top 10 disparity between iPhone and Android is irrelevant and why that wouldn't have any bearing on the average app's revenue prospects. In any case, the TechFlash article says "Michael Schneider of HiveBrain Inc., a Seattle-based iPhone app developer who has dabbled in Android apps, said the volume of sales for Android apps has been about one-tenth the size of their iPhone counterparts." This ratio matches what I've heard from several other people (disclaimer: I know Michael and among other things, we have discussed these topics in the past)